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20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post

Posted by michael on from the who-gnu? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sep 27, 2003 is the 20th anniversary of Stallman's original Usenet post describing his vision of GNU. Good time for reflecting over GNU's successes and failures, about how it has changed our world."

4 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Back to the software. by bigjocker · · Score: 4, Informative

    GNU is not about software. GNU is about choice.

    The GNU project is 100% political, it's not about creating a clone of the 'ls' command, is about setting the foundations to a Free Software world.

    Hail RMS, for he has done what few of us could have, he has dedicated his life to provide us qith a choice, be it a choice from IBM, UNIX or Microsoft. it's a choice for freedom, and a lot of us, who have made the choice, live and subsist now thanks to it.

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  2. Re:I remember the good old days... by KillerHamster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Definition here.

  3. Re:RMS married? Gay? In a relationship? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    See for yourself... in his personal ad

  4. Re:Arpa? by epsalon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the ARPA domain is alive and kicking, mostly the subdomain IN-ADDR.ARPA which is used for reverse DNS resolutions.

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